Posted on 11/03/2013 12:03:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a new poll released Friday, the Kaiser Family Foundation found the one month after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, more Americans want keep or expand the law as opposed to repeal or replace it, despite all of the problems with the HealthCare.gov web portal.
The poll asked people to answer what they would “like to see Congress do when it comes to the health care law.” As the figure below shows, 22% said “expand the law” and 25% said “keep the law as is” for a combined 47% of respondents. 13% wanted to see Congress “repeal the law and replace it with a Republican-sponsored alternative” and 24% said “repeal the law and not replace it” for a combined 37%.
As the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent points out, the poll was “taken October 17-23, more than two weeks after the problem-plagued rollout began (though in fairness, before the ‘you can keep your plan’ furor blew up).” It is significant that the big loser in the poll is the unspecified “Republican-sponsored alternative” given the fact that the GOP has not exactly been forthcoming about offering one up.
One other question from the poll concerned media coverage of the government shutdown/debt ceiling fight vs. the rocky Obamacare website rollout. Respondents were asked how closely they followed four stories that had been in the news last month: the government shutdown/debt ceiling fight, the Obamacare website problems, reports about the U.S. economy and the issues surrounding chemical weapons in Syria.
As the figure below demonstrates, Americans were far more likely to follow the shutdown/debt ceiling story very closely while the Obamacare website story received less overall public attention.
See the full poll results at KFF.org.
It’s like asking.......Do you believe in good????
A liberal will piss their pants to answer that question....as long as they have no immediate stake in it!!!!!!!.I gotta stop bailing them out...*S*
Wait for those Democrats have to start paying for it.
Want Want Want. They could want a Dictator too but it’s not going to happen.
Polls are not designed to reflect public opinion but rather are designed to shape public opinion.
OK, we know what pantsless weasels think.
How about wsking American humans who have been switched to new policies and seen their premiums quadruple and deductibles skyrocket.
Yes, I’m quibbling. Nevertheless ....
Truth! The Kaiser Roll Poll neither reflects nor portrays an a reality based consensus, just an abstract prophetic yearning of the Drone Lords.
Wonder what the poll results would be to the very simple question, “Do you want to see the federal government stay completely out of health care?”
LMAO!!!!
“We love our chains! More please!”
It appears Americans, more than ever are willing to submit their lives to a jack-booted overlord. That arcane concept of freedom is as passé as the traditional “rugged individualist” that typified the American experience. So long ago.
Being cared for, cradle to grave, by the almighty State and living the life of the fictional “Julia” have become the new “American Dream.”
who the hell did they poll - if they actually polled anyone?
Made up propaganda from the our friendly socialist
Well - when you stand next to Reid, Pelosy, and Obama - it actually is overwhelmed by their stench!
What’s a “Republican replacement”? Romneycare, which is essentially the same thing at the state level? Obamacare-lite, like some RINOs are proposing? “Republican” is tossed in there to reduce the results.
And “expanding” is so much more pleasant-sounding than “nationalize”, “socialize”, or, what the Obamas of the world really want—”communize”.
The only polls that count for anything are polls of likely voters...and this ain’t a likely voter poll.
All pollsters should be boiled alive in oil, then drawn and quarterd, and then burned at the stake.
For starters
Apparently, they polled 437 democrats, 330 republicans, and 548 independents.
Here is the breakdown as they report it, but the numbers don’t seem to add up:
Democrats - - - 437
Republicans - - 330
Independents- - 548
Uninsured- - - - 185
Total - - - - - - 1,513
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http://kff.org/report-section/october-2013-tracking-poll-methodology/
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“... The survey was conducted October 17-23, 2013
... random digit dial telephone sample of 1,513 adults ages 18 and older
... landline (755) and cell phone (758)
... For the landline sample, respondents were selected by asking for the youngest adult male or female
currently at home based on a random rotation
If no one of that gender was available, interviewers asked to speak with the youngest adult of the opposite gender
... For the cell phone sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone”
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Allow a vote nationwide and we’ll see how much “Americans like it”!
So, 70% don’t even like ObamaCare but a majority of people want it expanded.
Yeah, right, sure.
True about Medicaid. That’s not insurance.
As I understand it Midicaid is an entitlement with a twist. If you get put on it they ‘can’ put a lien on your property and estate to ‘repay’ them back for all of the funds used on you for medical purposes.
Another form of generational theft and the inability to leave your descendents any sort of inheritance.
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